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Extremely Painful Furniture
These awkward yet visually spectacular seats are the product of the wild mind of Helmut Palla. Helmut is part of an exhibition by the name of “Furniture as Trophy” featuring the phenomenon of animal materials in furniture design. These chairs plus a rather wonderful coffee table with antlers make up Palla’s contribution to the show.
The rest of the Furniture as Trophy show can be seen at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna through most of the summer into the winter, 2009.
Venue : MAK Furniture Study Collection
5 Stubenring, 1010 Vienna
Exhibition Term : May 27 – November 1, 2009
Opening Hours : Tue MAK NITE© 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Wed–Sun 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., Mon closed
Check out more show info on the MAK site: http://www.mak.at/
Don’t get your winky crushed!
Your winky has no chance against 100,000 years of rock hard animal brute force! Don’t even try to deny it, alright? These chairs are basically laughing at fate. Fate has a great chance at just an ancient bout of destroying any kind of winky you might have with the perfect weapon of the animal spirits of mother earth.
Designer: Helmut Palla
18 Comments »
Henrique Staino says
I believe this is the most hideous furniture I’ve ever seen. Ever.
Luke says
I think that’s kinda the point.
Henrique Staino says
No, thats not the point. What i mean that this is no good. And being no good is never the point. Even if something is made to be ugly, it is made to do its job.
Lone says
Im confused. Is the entire installation built from the ground up, the furniture with horns added, or are the horns added to pre-exsisting furniture? The MAK center site goes into more detail but otherwise doesn’t answer that question.
zippyflounder says
LOL perfect example of how to skim a few bucks off the new money crowd.
Alejandro says
I’d say more art than design.
Palla’s site:
http://www.turniture.at/
karl says
artist: helmut palia
Furniture says
I kinda can picture someone comes home drunk one night and sits on those chairs…. Im not sure it would be fun or would just kill you!
yoyoMan says
This is the first thing that came to my mind..
http://tinyurl.com/pfdttt
Rodrigo Ramos says
Nobody is even talking about where did those “animal elements” come from. Stupid waste of work and wood at times of green thought.
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